MATCH REPORTS BY MONTH

The wife said before the game in front of everyone: "I had this dream last
night of a dark-haired player who nobody had ever seen before coming on for
us as substitute and scoring at the North Stand end. I can see it now, clear
in my mind, it's bright sunshine, and he's standing on the halfway line with
both arms raised, and all the others are rushing over to congratulate him."
As ... More...

OK, on Tuesday night it was acceptable not to get three points so long as we
played well and proved Portsmouth was just a blip. But playing this well
yesterday without getting three points was Not Good. We went with some
Wolves regulars, who said beforehand in the pub opposite that they expected
Ipswich to do the normal Ipswich thing, string loads of wonderful passes
together, then not know what to do once ... More...

I know there's a very good argument for "results are everything, performance
is nothing" at this stage, but I'd almost have sacrificed the two points to
see last night's tremendous first half display, rather than discussing
another crap performance even if we'd won.
Again though, the problem was a lack of Plan B. Blackburn's woefully
ineffective left side in the first half gave Wilnis acres of space (despite
Wilnis playing almost as a winger, ... More...

There was a slight air of unreality about this one starting well before the
match. People were joking that if we were ever going to lose the unbeaten
record, it would of course be against the worst opposition ...but they were
only half-joking. And at the ground, the atmosphere was so flat before and
during the game it was hard to believe.
Of course, after all the discussion on the list about how ... More...